Sarah (Skele) > Sarah's Quotes

“We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.”
― Greg Graffin, Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God

“Talking about your problems, I think, is something reserved for the upper classes, the educated classes, for families in which a life of the mind is more important than a life of work, and of the body, and of the land.”
― Melissa Faliveno, Tomboyland: Essays

“Like so many of the systems in which we live, oppression is tricking the oppressed into oppressing each other.”
― Melissa Faliveno, Tomboyland: Essays

“The hallmark of the wild nature is that it goes on. It perseveres. This is not something we do. It is something we are, naturally and innately. When we cannot thrive, we go on till we can thrive again. Whether it be our creative life that we are cut away from, whether it be a culture or a religion we are cast out of, whether it be a familial exiling, a banishment by a group, or sanctions on our movements, thoughts, and feelings, the inner wild life continues and we go on.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

“evil men arose from evil systems, and that any man had the potential to be perverted. Which was why some systems needed to come to an end.”
― Hugh Howey, Shift

“Waffle House at four in the morning is a liminal space occupied by long-haul truckers, bleary-eyed shift workers, and teenagers so high they can smell God’s breath.”
― T. Kingfisher, A House With Good Bones

“Mina took her last picture—a snap of a dirty Labrador trotting down the pavement with a rolled up newspaper in its mouth”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Gates

“Every small town has power,” Hogarth said. “The people are aware of it in the way we’re aware of electricity humming through the walls of our homes or that our water is delivered through a network of pipes underground. We sense it like animals sense a tornado coming. You feel it just as much as I do, Ben. I’ve just been around long enough to recognize what it is.”
― Ronald Malfi, The Narrows

“We practiced everything in that office: How to walk, how to smile, how to sidestep tough questions by circling back to an unrelated, indignant defense of Israel—you know, the basics.”
― Jonathan Katz, Cleave the Sparrow

“I enjoy cats,” the old lady said. “They sit on your lap and purr when it’s cold. It’s a great relief to loneliness. Do you have any idea what it’s like to know that you are unlikely to live more than a decade? To have survived all those who were familiar to you so that everyone is a stranger? To feel that you’re tedious to these strangers? But really, it’s the nearness of death, especially for a secular person. Cats help with that.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead

“The application of justice is a by-product of power. We look to leaders to protect us. We organize for collective defense. Or collective acquisition.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead

“How am I supposed to know that my memories aren’t just tinted with nostalgia, a story I tell myself about it, compared to what really happened? It’s no wonder it’s impossible to ever really know someone, or to ever truly connect to another person. We construct our identities by the stories we tell ourselves about our own pasts.”
― Cody Lakin, The Aching Plane

“Do you think there’re monsters, primordial things that dream of universes? Is time just the breath of their slumber? Could they swallow our memories without even a second thought—if they have thoughts at all?”
― Cody Lakin, The Aching Plane